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Is taking a full set of fingerprints simply to garner a driver’s license legal? Government officials in Texas and a series of other states appear to think so. Since the 1960s Texas has required thumbprints for license renewals – index ...

Houston resident Clifford Hall is serving six months in jail because of child support he had paid in full — and because of a clerical error. “Mr. Hall has agreed to voluntarily surrender himself to the police to serve a ...

The National Rifle Association’s webpage claims it is “America’s longest-standing civil rights organization [and] diligent protectors of the Second Amendment.” So the NRA raised some eyebrows recently when it criticized a group of Texans who were lawfully and peacefully demonstrating ...

The city building code in Austin, Texas, applies to all structures — even a child’s treehouse. The Meroney family discovered this the hard way when they found a notice to stop work on their son’s new treehouse taped to their ...

Freezing temperatures across the United States this week have placed an extraordinary burden on the power grid – and in some places have served as a reminder of its vulnerabilities. It is so cold that cargo ships are getting caught ...

Fracking apparently is the cause of recent frequent earthquakes in parts of the United States where quakes are historically rare. Research indicates that tremors in Ohio, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arkansas and Texas might have been caused by fracking. “We can’t guarantee ...

Sarah Boaz was taken from her home in handcuffs, hauled to the city jail in North Richland Hills, Texas, and strip searched by police. Her crime? She had run a stop sign in August, got ticketed and forgot to pay ...

Drivers in Fort Worth, Texas, last week faced a so-called “voluntary” roadblock, where police and federal contractors asked for samples of their breath, saliva and blood. The stops are part of a government study trying to determine the number of ...

Food stamps are making the poor unhealthy by financing a diet of junk food that generates huge profits for giant corporations. That’s the conclusion of a disturbing new series by Washington Post journalist Eli Saslow. One real cause of the ...

A federal court in Texas has effectively denied an imprisoned reporter and his attorneys’ right to freedom of speech with a so-called gag order — preventing him from discussing US surveillance efforts. The order is only the latest action that ...